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Quotes About Competition

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.
~ Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.
~ Stephen Humphrey Bogart
In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'
~ Sylvia Porter
It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.
~ Tim Duncan
Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.
~ Tommy Morrison
The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
~ Warren Farrell
Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
~ Willem Dafoe
When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.
~ William Baldwin
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
~ Jane Austen
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
~ Thomas Sowell
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
~ Herbert Hoover
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
~ Mike Pence
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
~ Ronald Reagan
To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
~ Charles Koch
The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.
~ Alex Kozinski
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
~ Milton Friedman
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
~ Ronald Reagan
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
~ Joichi Ito
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
~ Alberto Juantorena
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
~ Bill Gates
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
~ Mitt Romney
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
~ Ayn Rand
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.
~ Ronald Reagan